Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Wouldn't be Disney Star Wars without a ridiculous contrivance to move the plot along.
"That's right OBI-WAN KENOBI! I'm heading to TATOOINE! With a T! To check on that VERY SPECIAL BOY! It would really suck if the Empire were to hear this. That me, BAIL ORGANA, senator of ALDERAAN is conspiring with you, OBI-WAN KENOBI!! RENOWNED JEDI MASTER!!! And am now as we speak heading to TATOOINE to check on that VERY SPECIAL BOY who is definitely THE CHOSEN ONE!! BAIL ORGANA, SENATOR OF ALDERAAN, OUT!!!"
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
The flashbacks were done really well. There's always been a bit of a disconnect for me between Anakin and Vader. First time it's really felt like yes, they are one and the same.
My favorite part of the episode. A framing device that fit the structure of the story they were trying to tell in this one. The flashbacks were also tellingly depicted as Vader's memories rather than Obi-Wan's, which is also interesting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Wouldn't be Disney Star Wars without a ridiculous contrivance to move the plot along.
"That's right OBI-WAN KENOBI! I'm heading to TATOOINE! With a T! To check on that VERY SPECIAL BOY! It would really suck if the Empire were to hear this. That me, BAIL ORGANA, senator of ALDERAAN is conspiring with you, OBI-WAN KENOBI!! RENOWNED JEDI MASTER!!! And am now as we speak heading to TATOOINE to check on that VERY SPECIAL BOY who is definitely THE CHOSEN ONE!! BAIL ORGANA, SENATOR OF ALDERAAN, OUT!!!"
Pretty sure he also mentioned Owen's name as well, as if Organa couldn't make it any easier to figure out where to look if the message fell into the wrong hands :-) [Reply]
My guess is now the Third Sister sacrifices herself in some way in the finale to save Luke/Leia, figuring that their continued existence/force potential is the best way to get her final revenge on Vader. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
The flashbacks were done really well. There's always been a bit of a disconnect for me between Anakin and Vader. First time it's really felt like yes, they are one and the same.
I liked how they had Vader fight in the style of Anakin and not like old man Vader 10 years later. [Reply]
So apparently Andrew Stanton helped write the final 2 episode. Probably why as a whole this episode was vastly superior to everything that came before it.
Don't know if it was a fivehead play by Disney or they just accidentally stumbled onto flipping the concept of the female lead that gets pretty much everything unearned on its head but holy shit did it work either way. By the end I actually felt a bit bad for Reva because both Vader and Obi Wan used her as a pawn, unbeknownst to her, and she got absolutely wrecked for it. Just complete humiliation and everything she'd been accomplishing? Nope, Vader was pulling the strings all along. [Reply]
Hard to imagine that Vader would leave Reva alive, unless he's still playing her.
I just saw that as Vader having so little respect for her/her skills and any potential for her to threaten him in the future that he doesn't care if she survives. He's letting her live with the shame of her failure.
Of course, I also expect his hubris in that regard to come back to bite him in E6. [Reply]
What they did with Reva's character is even better than what I was guessing, and Vader's ABSOLUTE DOMINATION of her was delicious.
Seeing Vader stop that ship was a true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment (fuck you Rey). And the editing with the sparring contest in the Jedi temple, and paralleling it with what was happening at the base...just incredible.
Obi-Wan choosing not to fight...a perfect tie-in with Alec Guiness' line "there are alternatives to fighting"
Reva is very clearly going to drag her impaled ass to a bacta tank and race to Tatooine to do...something.
The finale is going to be epic!
Has anyone noticed how each episode is mirroring an episode of the Skywalker saga?
Episode I: Strangers arrive on Tatooine. Kenobi meets/guards a young, gifted boy who lives his simple life with his family (Anakin/Luke).
Episode II: Kenobi hunts for the bounty hunters who have attacked a princess (Padme/Leia). The hunt leads through an urban cyberpunk planet (Coruscant/Daiyu).
Episode III: Kenobi faces off with Darth Vader. He gets burned in fire just as Vader got burned on Mustafar. Kenobi fails to rescue the child (Anakin/Leia). It's his low point.
Episode IV: Kenobi gets his act together and sets off to a military Imperial base to rescue Princess Leia (Death Star/Fortress Inquisitorius). The Imperials plant a homing beacon.
Episode V:
Spoiler!
The rebel base gets attacked, the rebels flee. Kenobi is betrayed, but escapes Vader, who dominates with the force only to watch his quarry escape.
Episode VI: There is still good in him/Obi-Wan once thought as you do? :-)
One thing I will say, they really need to quit with the shaky cam. [Reply]
